Nafe (Kwamera)

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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adj.

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chasser le chien

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v vitess

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n.

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[ianarɨm]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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[ganari]

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lutjanus kasmira via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Gerres filamentosus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[karwarwar]

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Example: Used for cooking and lap-lap

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.

Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Cephalopholis urodeta via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.

Scientific name: Sida cordifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[kwanokuma] n.

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

le fils de ma soeur ainee

Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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n piste

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Eskar

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Ctenochaetus striatus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiere via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Use with Euodia (MJB 5031; Nisei) when a young girl gets her period to reduce the odor. Put this plant under the skirt. When planting yam, dig the hole, and burn the leaves of this with coconut. Put this flaming concoction into the hole and cover it with soil. Then place the yam in. This will help kill any pathogen, like a virus, that will harm the yam.

Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n cratère lunaire

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus ornatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.

Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: 1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.

Scientific name: Phlegmariurus oceanianus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.

Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Speaker: Jean Eskar

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Example: Animal Feed: The green leaves of this plant are used to feed pigs. Hunting: The inner part of the long dry rhizome is woven to create a pidgeon trap.

Scientific name: Epipremnum pinnatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Green fruits are edible. To eat the leaves, cook them in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, eat with coconut milk. The younger leaves should be the ones harvested for eating. The leaves can also be used to bake a pig in an earth oven, wrap the leaves around the pig. The wood is good for firewood and a person can start the dried wood with no match. The leaves of this plant can be eaten with another, unspecified leaf to stop vomiting. When the fruits are ripe the flying fox and birds like to eat these fruits.

Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Wood is hard to make house posts. Stem to make bow for hunting birds, fruit bat.

Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Agricultural: When it is time to harvest the first crop of yam (~ April 1st), the 1st yam (’Nuk’) is put inside the hole from where it was harvested with one or two green leaves of this plant.

Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n mon genou

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Example: When this tree grows with straight stems it is used for house posts

Scientific name: Weinmannia denhami, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: For toothaches, take inner bark, scrape it into water and use to rinse mouth--pain will go away. Stem for house posts. Birds like this flower.

Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. inalienable

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Annona muricata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus dussumieri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by birdexplorers / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Arcte coerula via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Example: Photo by givernykate / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cepora perimale via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by flecksy / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Zizina labradus via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe

Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus schlegeli via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus auranticavus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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[tikinaʊ] n.

Scientific name: Pogonatherum crinitum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. semi-inalienable

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Nothocnide repanda (MB 5122), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

fevrier

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Taeniura lymma via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe